Stay at home dad God of War Ragnarökinitially looks like it has little trouble with squeezing itself into aSteam Deck. Yet like a flask of mead laced with Odin’s raven piss, the seemingly crisp treat of Ragnarök’s handheld performance masks a nasty blend of technical troubles and what is, essentially, an always-online requirement by stealth. Steam Deck Academybrings together all our guides and explainers on getting the most out of your Steam Deck, no student loans or sweaty dormitories required....

How to get the Five Skandhas Pill and receive a secret stat boost Searching for Skandha locations in Black Myth Wukong?Skandhas are key items found in every Chapter except Chapter 5. As is the case with many ofBlack Myth Wukong’s hidden collectibles, the game won’t tell you what to do with the five Skandhas, so we’ll let you in on the secret: if you take them to Xu Dog, he’ll turn them into aCelestial Medicinethat permanently improves you maximum HP, stamina, and mana....

How’s this for “quadruple-A” boomerang cutlass attack It’s a pirate’s life for me, and it’s a pirate’s life for Goro Majima, recurring eyepatched anti-hero of the used-to-be-called-Yakuzaseries. He’s the star of the just-announcedLike A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii, a game I can only applaud for the brazen straightforwardness of its title. Whatever Sega were drinking when they signed off onMetaphor: ReFantazio, they were not drinking when they signed off on this....

But what’s it watching? The post-apocalyptic wastelands ofRain Worldare stunning, brutal, and full of strange creatures that would like to eat your kittenish face. It’s a landscape of wonder and pain, and it’s about to get a little more wonderful and painful. The upcoming Watcher expansion, which adds new places to visit and a new type of slugcat to play as, will be coming out early next year, say the developers....

Stuck on the Wordle word for September 20? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordleis an addicting but challenging test of word acumen. Luckily, you’re in the right place for some assistance. Every day, Wordle presents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

From early game to endgame, these loadouts make even the toughest Yaoguai cry Looking for the best builds in Black Myth Wukong?With so many weapons, armour pieces, Curios, Gourds, and Spirits to choose from, finding the best combinations isn’t easy. In thisBlack Myth Wukongbuild guide, we’ll show you some of the best options from early game to endgame. Keep in mind that the possibilities are endless, so feel free to experiment with your build!...

Every Mysticism, Alteration, and Transformation Spell you should be using in Black Myth Wukong Looking for the best Spells in Black Myth Wukong?Ranging from petrification powers to a Stone Monkey transformation,Black Myth Wukong’s Spells are among the most important combat tools. What better way to defeat a boss than to stun them and unleash your army of minions? Beware that you can only equip one Spell from each of the categories: Mysticism, Alteration, Strand, and Transformations....

Keep track of your progress with our detailed and concise Chapter 1 map! Looking for a map of Chapter 1 of Black Myth: Wukong?As you no doubt very quickly discovered,Black Myth: Wukonghas no in-game map or minimap (unless you use mods, of course). And while Chapter 1 is - for the most part - fairly linear, the later Chapters can get amazingly labyrinthine and environmentally complex. Sometimes, we all just need a map....

Use our Chapter 2 map of Black Myth Wukong to make sure you don’t miss a thing What does a Chapter 2 map for Black Myth: Wukong look like?If your answer is “a goddamn jumble of chaos”, then you’re in the right ballpark. Chapter 2’s environment is one of the least linear and most confusing inBlack Myth: Wukong, with multiple paths to various locations, several one-way connections between regions, and a whole heap of secrets to discover....

Use this map to keep track of everything in Black Myth Wukong’s massive Chapter 3 Looking for a map of Chapter 3 in Black Myth: Wukong?Chapter 3 is by far the largest and most complex of all the Chapters in the already large and complexBlack Myth: Wukong. While it lacks the circular many-routes nature ofChapter 2, it houses by far the most Keeper’s Shrines of any Chapter, and the routes you must take to reach the end of Chapter 3 can leave you feeling rather lost and confused - particularly in the Pagoda Realm and the Valley Of Ecstasy....

Need some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #465. This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 19th September?Well, that’s exactly what we have. Below is a range of clues to help you find the easiest to hardest Connections group answers. Connectionsis a word puzzle game published every day by the New York Times (NYT), the hosts of the endlessly popularWordlepuzzle....

That Dragon, Toxoplasmosis “Guided by your moral compass: reflect on themes of home, loneliness and belonging through a complex, three-act story told effortlessly through three hours of video game narrative,” the press release for catsimulatorCopycattold me. Morals? Daddy Karch,it’s happening again! I’m in the cat shelter and the woman you play as, Olive, is coughing and the screen is going blurry. The elderly woman in the cat shelter is ill and the music is sad and it is so shameless that I cannot stop howling....

Upscaling to the rescue, again Fifteen months on from its PS5 release,Final Fantasy XVI– that actionyRPGof emo-fringed hack ‘n’ slashing anddisquietingly sexy Ralph Ineson characters– is now on PC. Enough time, you’d think, to do a proper job of rejigging it with Windows spanners, especially afterFinal Fantasy XV’s port got so much stick for its lack of features andperformance issues. FFVXI does make some improvements, adopting a full set ofDLSSandFSRupscalers and frame generators, and its mouse and keyboard integration feels generally slicker than XV....